Millie Ford

Millie Ford has returned to writing after a successful career in retail integrated marketing. Her writing is known for its unique imagery and powerful metaphors. She is currently working on a series of essays that will become a memoir. In addition to writing, Millie is passionate about animal rescue. She volunteers at a local animal shelter to help stray animals get adopted into loving homes. Millie lives in the Chicagoland area with her rescue cat, Isaac. One of her essays will be published in Storytellers’ True Stories About Love, Volume 2, by Chicago Story Press in 2023.

Blind Soil

An apartment dweller for forty years, I learned to navigate labyrinth hallways, steep staircases balancing bags of groceries, elevator caverns without eye contact. Every door the same, spread out like beads on a necklace, never a precious gem to hold. Then, I bought a townhouse.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 69, January 2023

Millie Ford

Millie Ford has returned to writing after a successful career in retail integrated marketing. Her writing is known for its unique imagery and powerful metaphors. She is currently working on a series of essays that will become a memoir. In addition to writing, Millie is passionate about animal rescue. She volunteers at a local animal shelter to help stray animals get adopted into loving homes. Millie lives in the Chicagoland area with her rescue cat, Isaac. One of her essays will be published in Storytellers’ True Stories About Love, Volume 2, by Chicago Story Press in 2023.

Blind Soil

An apartment dweller for forty years, I learned to navigate labyrinth hallways, steep staircases balancing bags of groceries, elevator caverns without eye contact. Every door the same, spread out like beads on a necklace, never a precious gem to hold. Then, I bought a townhouse.

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 69, January 2023

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